Has the U.S. learned the necessary lessons from the likes of Italy and Spain?
MADRID — Over the weekend, more than 2,100 people died in Spain as a result of the coronavirus, yet here we are, allowing ourselves to feel hopeful.
A doctor at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid sent this tweet on Sunday, celebrating an empty emergency-room waiting area for the first time since the pandemic reached this hard-hit capital. “Yes, I’m crying. We are close ... we can do it,” reads his tweet. And while Spanish and Italian citizens are locked down tight, some anecdotes from the U.S. are worrying. This reporter’s sister was laughed at for wearing a mask at a Midwest grocery store where no one was respecting social-distancing standards — even as infections have cropped up in that town. Talk of a possible peak for New York, the epicenter of the U.S.
Their daughter has managed to find creative ways to stay busy, including an inspired take on one of the most important holidays in Spain, Easter, which this year has all but been canceled. Her short film, produced with her mother and a friend, represents a timely kid’s-eye view of the traditional Easter procession, with the religious statue, traditionally of Christ or the Virgin Mary, replaced by a virus of great power. Tiny dolls with medical masks become the crowd trailing the statue.
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